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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, was a son of Charles Cavendish, himself the third son of Sir William Cavendish and his wife Bess of Hardwick. One of Charles Cavendish's elder brothers became the 1st Earl of Devonshire (see Duke of Devonshire for further history about this branch of the family).
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC (c. 16 December 1593 – 25 December 1676), who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Bess's grandson by her third Cavendish son, was also a leading Royalist, unlike his cousin William fighting in the wars as an important but apparently not very good general. He also went into exile, and remained in favour for the first years of the Restoration, but then had a distant relationship with ...
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
Newcastle was the son of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, by his wife Georgina Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Miller-Mundy. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1832, and was created a D.C.L. in 1863. [1]
Henry Edward Hugh Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, OBE, DL, JP (8 April 1907 – 4 November 1988), [1] styled Earl of Lincoln from 1928 to 1941, was a British peer and aviator. Background
Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, Marquess of Clare, Earl of Clare: Dukedom of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (3rd creation) and Marquessate of Clare extinct, 1768 Earldom of Clare extinct, 1768: Duke of Newcastle-Under-Lyne, 1756 (succeeded by special remainder, 1768) Norreys Fynes (1720–1764) George Clinton (1718–1730)
She was afterwards known as the Countess of Lincoln, the Earl of Lincoln being the courtesy title held by the eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle. They had five children: [ 1 ] Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (25 January 1834 – 22 February 1879), who married Henrietta Adela Hope (11 April 1843 – 8 May 1913) on 11 ...